[gdy]

"Then they would certainly beat Japan by themself - it is just an island."

Why not? It took the USSR only 11 days to defeat the Kwantung Army (0.7 million soldiers) in the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Manchuria

[sergeykish]

Would you want to be soviet soldier in 1942 discussing these ideas?

[gdy]

I suppose you would've preferred to be an American pilot dropping nuclear bombs on civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

[sergeykish]

I suppose you would've preferred to be in NKVD interrogating and killing harmless people by thousands

[gdy]

Don't see the connection.